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Judge tosses Trump administration’s case against Harvard alleging school didn’t protect Jewish students from discrimination

August 13, 2026 1:21 PM CNN Newsource

By Andy Rose, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston dismissed the Trump administration’s multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Harvard University that alleged the school failed to protect its Jewish students from discrimination, marking the latest development in their lengthy dispute over funding and academic independence. US District Judge Richard G. Stearns, a Clinton

Five arrested in Cajon Pass train shooting and cargo theft investigation

August 13, 2026 12:39 PM Tommy Gallegos

San Bernardino, CA (KESQ) – Five people have been arrested in connection with a shooting involving a BNSF Railway Police officer and the alleged burglary of rail cars in the Cajon Pass, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The investigation began Monday, August 10, at approximately 6:04 p.m., when deputies from the San

President Donald Trump speaks with the media aboard Air Force One

Why officials decided to smuggle Trump out of Turkey with a catering truck and a secret plane

August 13, 2026 12:31 PM CNN Newsource

By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — By the time President Donald Trump walked onstage at the end of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, the plan to spirit him out of the country was already in motion. Earlier that day, American officials had come to the president with alarming information. The

Mountain lion, sheep movements focus of desert wildlife study

August 13, 2026 11:21 AM City News Service

PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – The challenges, habits and potential perils impacting wildlife moving through native turf around Highway 62 north of Palm Springs will be closely observed during an upcoming campaign intended to help them, it was announced today. Wildlands Network, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit, will be partnering with others, including the Rice, Washington-based

This anti-war politician just fled Russia. He believes Putin knows the war is costing him support

August 13, 2026 11:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Clare Sebastian, CNN Paris (CNN) — Boris Nadezhdin struck a tired, yet still upbeat figure when we met on a blisteringly hot day in Paris. He’d been in France just over a week, still reeling from his hasty exit from Russia after a sudden summons from Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee on what he assumed

Palm Springs woman arrested on federal fraud charges in Southern Poverty Law Center case

August 13, 2026 10:22 AM Garrett Hottle

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) A 59-year-old Palm Springs woman who once ran the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate group tracking project was arrested Wednesday on federal fraud and money laundering charges. Heidi Beirich is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit

People stop to watch workers erect scaffolding at the Kennedy Center in Washington

Kennedy Center votes to put Trump’s name back on building and close for renovations

August 14, 2026 2:18 PM CNN Newsource

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s handpicked board of the Kennedy Center has voted a second time to close the performing arts institution for a two-year renovation, according to two people who were briefed on the decision. The board on Thursday also voted to add an inscription below the Kennedy Center’s sign,

The damaged and half sunk oil tanker Caroline Bezengi

Huge oil spill off the coast of Oman now covers hundreds of square miles

August 14, 2026 12:45 AM CNN Newsource

By Sarah El Sirgany and Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — An oil spill from a stranded tanker off the coast of Oman now covers an estimated 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers), the environmental organization Greenpeace told CNN, prompting fears that a major ecological disaster could be unfolding in the Arabian Sea. The spill has

Passengers tell of ‘terrifying experience’ after train derails in UK

August 14, 2026 12:43 AM CNN Newsource

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — Eighteen people were injured, including two seriously, after a passenger train derailed in southern England on Thursday, trapping passengers inside carriages that had toppled onto their sides. South East Coast Ambulance Service said two people “sustained serious injuries,” while a further 16 with “less serious injuries,” were taken

Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during his first address to the DOJ workforce in the position in Washington

Todd Blanche makes plea for unity at Justice Department

August 13, 2026 10:58 AM CNN Newsource

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — In his inaugural address to the Justice Department workforce on Thursday, Attorney General Todd Blanche pledged to make the department “more faithful to its highest ideals than when I found it.” Blanche’s speech, delivered in the great hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, was meant

Russian naval flags are seen on the Zaporizhzhia' former Ukrainian submarine moored in the bay of the Crimean port of Sevastopol on April 17

Crimea bomb attack reportedly kills former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia

August 13, 2026 9:17 AM CNN Newsource

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A bomb attack in Crimea has reportedly killed a former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia in 2014 when Moscow annexed the peninsula. Russian authorities said a Russian military officer had been killed in a targeted attack in Sevastopol, Crimea’s biggest city, and that a woman has subsequently

Israeli soldiers stand guard outside a Palestinian house in the village of Qusra

Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank

August 14, 2026 3:04 AM CNN Newsource

By Zeena Saifi, Jeremy Diamond, Cyril Theophilos, CNN Qusra, West Bank (CNN) — Loui Ridi began building a home in his native town of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, for his two daughters. The girls grew up in Ohio, but family trips made them fall in love with their father’s Palestinian roots. “Can we

Secretary for Veterans Affairs Doug Collins looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland

‘They don’t trust him anymore’: How VA Secretary Doug Collins drew the ire of the White House and Republicans

August 13, 2026 7:40 AM CNN Newsource

By Brian Todd, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — A month after House Republicans failed to pass a veterans health bill, lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors to try to get the legislation back on track. But there’s one key person they haven’t invited to the table: Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins. Collins and his team

Construction workers walk near a bulldozer near the border in Big Bend National Park in Texas on August 7

Bulldozers rip into Big Bend National Park, driving anger and heartbreak

August 13, 2026 4:13 AM CNN

CNN, NATALIE NEWMAN By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Rachel Clarke, CNN Big Bend National Park, Texas (CNN) — The towering cliffs, jagged mountain tops, and punishing desert climate of the Big Bend region in Texas have long proved to be the best barrier the United States could have with Mexico. For generations, the idea of

Marine One with US President Donald Trump on board departs from the Ellipse near the White House in Washington

A passenger jet that came too close to Trump’s Marine One helicopter highlights continuing air traffic control problems

August 13, 2026 3:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — A year and a half after a deadly midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people, dozens of safety recommendations have been issued, and some changes were implemented, but problems with aircraft getting too close together persist. Last Tuesday, planes continued to take off

Trump saying the US is “low-keying it” could mean that the administration is taking a more subdued approach in the face of an emboldened Iran.

What does Trump mean when he says the US is ‘low-keying’ negotiations with Iran?

August 13, 2026 3:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — After Iran intensified its demands over the weekend before it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump didn’t threaten new strikes but instead indicated that he planned to choke Iran economically. “We are low-keying it,” he told Axios over the weekend. “We are only semi-negotiating with them.

A Puerto Rican casts his vote at a polling station in San Juan

When they didn’t find fraud while testing a voting machine for the Trump admin, this cyber firm faced a wave of backlash

August 13, 2026 6:22 AM CNN Newsource

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration abruptly declined to renew a contract for a cybersecurity firm it hired to examine voting equipment in Puerto Rico after the company didn’t echo administration officials’ false claims of voter fraud, the firm’s executives said in their first extensive public remarks on the episode. After hearing

An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on July 31.

Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers’ demand for answers

August 13, 2026 12:17 PM CNN Newsource

By Pamela Brown, Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — A sailor went overboard earlier this month off of the USS Abraham Lincoln, three US officials told CNN, amid reports of worsening mental health for crew members on the ship during an extended deployment for the Iran war. The sailor was rescued within an hour, according to

Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers’ demand for answers

August 13, 2026 2:33 AM CNN

KFMB, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, UNITED STATES NAVY, CNN By Pamela Brown, Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — A sailor went overboard earlier this month off of the USS Abraham Lincoln, three US officials told CNN, amid reports of worsening mental health for crew members on the ship during an extended deployment for the Iran

Bulldozers rip into Big Bend National Park, driving anger and heartbreak

August 15, 2026 8:21 AM CNN Newsource

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Rachel Clarke, CNN Big Bend National Park, Texas (CNN) — The towering cliffs, jagged mountain tops, and punishing desert climate of the Big Bend region in Texas have long proved to be the best barrier the United States could have with Mexico. For generations, the idea of needing to build

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